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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Photoelectron Counting Statistics of Light Transmitted through Multimode Optical Fiber

Manabu Yoshikawa, Norihito Suzuki, Tatsuro Suzuki

Published Mar 1, 1982• 4 citations
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Abstract

The photon counting statistics of light transmitted through multimode optical fiber are studied. We have measured the intensity correlation function of light scattered by polystyrene particles suspended in water using transmitted He–Ne laser light. The coherence characteristics are degraded for long fiber and also fluctuations in the intensity occur. The experimental distribution is represented well by the theoretical distribution. The intensity fluctuation is reduced when an incoherent light source is used.

DOI
10.1143/jjap.21.539

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The photon counting statistics of light transmitted through multimode optical fiber are studied. We have measured the intensity correlation function of light scattered by polystyrene particles suspended in water using transmitted He–Ne laser light. The coherence characteristics are degraded for long fiber and also fluctuations in the intensity occur. The experimental distribution is represented well by the theoretical distribution. The intensity fluctuation is reduced when an incoherent light source is used.
The photon counting statistics of light is studied, in which the various types of photon counting distribution can be represented by Nakagami'sm-distribution. To investigate this theoretical utility we have measured the photon counting distribution of laser light scattered by a very dilute solution in which non-Gaussian statistics appear. The comparison is also made by the factrial moment between the experimental value and theoretical one. The experimental distribution is in agreement with the theoretical distribution.
The statistics and autocorrelation function of the light scattered from polystyrene latex have been studied with a light-detecting system on-line with a small digital computer. The distributions of photoelectric counts have been measured during count intervals from 5 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ to 5 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}3}$ sec. The results were well accounted for by the approximate theory of Mandel. The factorial moments have been measured to sixth order and the results were in excellent agreement with theoretical calculations. For the first time, we have directly measured the autocorrelation function without using a clipping or scaling method. With this direct method, the comparison between the results of the composite measurements and the theoretical predictions can be quantitatively discussed.
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It is well known that photoelectric measurements yield information about the statistical behavior of fluctuating light beams. The probability of n photoelectrons being ejected, in a fixed time interval, from the photosensitive surface of the photoelectric detector, upon which the light beam is normally incident, is a linear (Poisson) transform of the probability density for the intensity of the beam. With the help of some plausible assumptions, the present analysis provides solutions to the problem of inverting the Poisson transform, thus determining the probability density for the intensity from experimentally obtained photocounting distributions. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by an actual inversion of a typical experimental counting distribution. The technique is of particular interest in connection with efforts to understand the statistical behavior of optical fields, especially of laser fields.
Statistical properties of partially polarized Gaussian light were studied experimentally for degrees of polarization PPP from 0.03 to 1 by a standard technique of photon counting. The Gaussian light with an arbitrary degree of polarization was obtained from Rayleigh scattering of orthogonally polarized laser beams. The factorial moments up to sixth order of the photoelectron distribution were measured with an arbitrary temporal and spatial coherence. After corrections were taken for the experimental conditions, the theoretical values of these factorial moments were compared with the experimental results. It is shown that the theoretical predictions were quantitatively well verified by the present measurements. The microscopic process is discussed from the standpoint of the light scattering system used in the present measurements, and it is shown that the orthogonally polarized components of the scattered light observed are statistically independent.